Guard for eyeglasses.



' L. F. ADT.

GUARD FOR EYEGLASSES.

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967,291. Patented Aug. 16,1910.

shvuewl oz LEO F. ADT, OF TROY, NEW YORK.

GUARD FOR- EYEGLASSES.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Aug. 16, 1910.

Application filed May 9, 1905. Serial No. 259,554.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, Lno F. Aer, of Troy, in the county of Rensselaer and State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Guards for Eyeglasses; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawing, forming a part of this specification, and to the referenceaiumerals marked thereon.

My present invention relates to improvements in eyeglasses, and has for its purpose to provide an improved guard having a portion for engaging the solid or bony portion of the nose and a si'ipplemental pad for en gaging the fleshy part of the nose immediately below the forehead of the wearer for securing the eyeglasses while the main supporting action is produced upon the solid portion of the nose, the nose engaging portions of the guard being sufliciently extended and yielding to enable a firm seating of the guards without unduly pinching the nose.

To these and other ends the invention consists in certain improvements and combinations of parts all as will be hereinafter more fully explained, the novel features being pointed out in the claims at the end of the specification.

In the drawings: Figure 1 is a front elevation of a pair of eyeglasses provided with nose guards embodying my invention. Fig. 2 is a transverse sectional view through the spring, showing the nose guard in side elevation. Fig. 3 is a side elevation on an enlarged scale of the guard shown in Fig. 2, and Figs. 4 and 5 are views similar to Fig. 2 showing different ways of forming the guard.

The same numerals of reference in the several figures indicate similar parts.

The guard as constructed in Figs. 1, 2 and 3 and in Fig. 5 is adapted for use in connection witha pair of eyeglasses equipped with a spring having horizontal attaching portions, the lenses 1 being provided with attaching devices 2 having horizontally-extending seats to receive the correspondingly-arranged attaching portions of the bridge spring 3. Into this seatof the attaching devices is adapted to fit the correspondingly-formed attaching lug 4 having the attaching arm 5 extending downwardly therefrom and thence doubling upwardly and preferably rear- Wardly edgewise of the material to form the yielding arm 6 which is resiliently connected to the attaching arm 5 by the loop or bend 7. The yielding arm 6 is adapted to engage the solid or bony portion of the wearers nose with a yielding pressure by reason of its resilient connection with the attaching portion of the guard, and it extends upwardly above the point of attachment of the guard and is provided with a forwardly-extending connecting arm 8. To the connecting arm 8 is attached a pad or supplemental nose-engaging portion 9 which is offset forwardly out of alinement with the upwardly extending arm 6, and this pad may be formed separately of any desired form and attached to the guard although I prefer to form it as an integral part of the guard, especially when the guard is formed of flat material, and the connecting arm 8 may be attached to the pad at any desired point in order to fit the guard to noses of different shapes.

The guards shown in Figs. 2, 3 and 4t are formed with a comparatively long rear wardly-bowing nose-engaging arm 6, which is adapted to obtain a hold 011 an extended area of the nose, and extends upwardly somewhat higher than the arm (3 of the guard shown in Fig. 5, and in order that the supplemental pad 9 may occupy the proper position while the arm 6 extends upwardly to ditlerent heights, the connecting arm 8 may be attached to the pad at different points, for instance, while the arm 6 in the forms shown in Figs. 2, 3 and t extends upwardly a considerable height, by attaching it to the pad at an intermediate point of the latter, the pad is not unduly elevated and may occupy the proper position, and in Fig. 5 the comparatively low and short arm 6 is attached to the pad near its lower end and this enables the pad to rest at the proper height in order that it may engage the fleshy portion of the nose immediately below the forehead without disturbing the relation of the lenses to the eyes of the wearer.

An attaching arm 10 similar to that shown in Fig. t may be employed when it is desirable to employ the guard in connection with a spring having a vertically-extending attaching arm.

A nose guard constructed in accordance with my invention provides a main nose-engaging portion which is sufliciently large and yielding to allow it to obtain a firm bearing on an extended area of the solid or bony portion of the nose without undue pinching or pressure, and the large supplemental bearing portion by clamping against the soft flesh of the nose immediately beneath the forehead of the wearer provides a holding surface for the guard at a point considerably above the point of attachment of the guard and this will steady the eyeglasses from the swinging or tilting motion, and as the flesh will more or less surround or rise above the pad, slipping of the guards will be effectually prevented.

It is generally preferable to form the guard of an integral piece of flat material having the bend 7 formed therein either as an open loop as shown, or as a coil, by bending the material edgewise so that its arms may be flat, and if desired, engage the wearers nose, and by forming the guard in one piece with the proper resilience, the use of movable parts which would pinch the skin or flesh of the nose between them is avoided. But it will be understood that the guards may be formed of material having different shaped cross sections, and if desired, may be formed in either one or more parts.

I claim as my invention:

1. A nose guard comprising a lower nose bearing loop having its rear arm extending upwardly above its forward arm and adapted to bear on the nose above the forward arm, and a supplemental pad arranged in front of the rear arm and having the latter connected thereto at a point above its lower edge. 1

2. The combination with the lenses and bridge, of nose guards each embodying a downwardly extending and an upwardly extending resilient arm forming a lower nose engaging loop and havingnose engaging surfaces lying in substantially the same plane, the upwardly extending arm having its upper end above the upper end of the downwardly extending arm and formed to bear against the nose throughout its length, and a nose clamping portion offset forwardly from and directly in front of the upwardly extending arm and forming a continuous nose engaging surface with said arm.

3. In eyeglasses, the combination with the lenses and a bridge, of nose guards each embodying an arm extending downward from the attaching portion, a yielding arm attached to the downwardly extending arm forming with the downwardly extending arm, a lower nose engaging loop, lying substantially in the same plane therewith, ex tending upwardly above the upper end of the downwardly extending arm and adapted to engage the bony part of the nose above the downwardly extending arm, and a bearing portion offset forwardly from the upper end of the yielding arm to clamp the fleshy portion of the nose immediately below the forehead.

4. In eyeglasses, the combination with the lenses and a bridge, of nose guards made from fiat material and each embodying an attaching portion, a looped lower nose engaging portion having the fiat faces of its arms arranged in substantially the same plane, the upwardly extending arm having a portion arranged above the upper end of the other arm of the loop and adapted to bear on the nose, and an enlarged nose bearing pad offset forwardly and directly in front of said upper portion of the upwardly extending arm to clamp the fleshy portion of the wearers nose immediately below the forehead.

LEO l ADT.

lVi tnesses H. I). BAILEY, JAMES F. BYRON. 

